1975 Orly Airport attacks

The 1975 Orly Airport attacks occurred on 13 and 19 January 1975 when two men from the "Mohamed Boudia Commando" of the PFLP and Revolutionary Cells attempted to blow up an Israeli El Al airplane on the runway of Orly Airport in Paris, France with an RPG-7. PFLP members Carlos the Jackal and Mouloud drove to the airport with an RPG and some ammunition on 13 January, and they parked their car near the runway. Carlos loaded the RPG, and Mouloud fired it, but it missed and hit a Yugoslav DC-9 plane after it had disembarked passengers from Zagreb in Croatia. Mouloud attempted to fire again, but the rocket swerved and hit an airport building in the distance. The two men were forced to flee in their car, which had a hole in the windshield due to the rocket casing flying backwards and through the glass. They ditched their car and entered Johannes Weinrich's car, fleeing. On 19 January, they decided to attempt the attack again, but French police fired submachine guns in the air and forced the terrorists to flee without firing the rocket. The terrorists shot and injured one policeman while fleeing through the airport, and they wounded a few other people with a grenade. They proceeded to take hostages and escape the airport, and Mouloud and another terrorist escaped on a plane to Baghdad in Ba'athist Iraq as Carlos fled to his Paris apartment. Croatian freedom fighters took responsibility for the first attack, as the rocket coincidentally hit a Yugoslav plane, discrediting the PFLP.